This seems like one of the highest leverage and unsolved problems out there. Super smart capable passionate people aren’t able to get the resources needed to work on things that they love and that are important (ikigai alignment)
- venture capital
- venture-backed companies drive fast innovation but towards the wrong end-goal
- private funding
- either raising from friends or having your own means to work on what you want
- government grants
- non-profit
- signal and telegram
- issues with huge donors being the largest portion
- patron model
- Andy Matuschak does this
- token drop
- popularized by web3, can raise money from anywhere
- financials are also built into operation of the system, so it’s self-sufficient
- no risk of “have to shut down because i’m overwhelmed by response”
Active work
- molly mieke is working on this with moth minds.
- Nadia Eghbal has a free grants program
- Slate Star Codex also does a grants program?